Experts

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

MGIMO University

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS